Category: Health News

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Thursday announced a curfew to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as cases soar and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen supplies. Authorities warned of a dire... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As schools prepare to re-open to all pupils in February, experts warn that UK government plans for mass testing risks spreading COVID-19 more widely. Writing in The BMJ, Professor Jon Deeks and colleagues at the Royal... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Britain on Sunday raced against the clock to vaccinate as many people as possible while Germany warned of the “hardest” days yet to come with Europe battling to contain soaring coronavirus infections. January 11 marks one... Read More

SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH A new risk-stratification tool which can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19 has been developed by researchers from... Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Britain has vaccinated more people against COVID-19 than the 27-nation European Union put together, according to an AFP tally on Wednesday. Since Britain approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in early December, more than 1.3 million people have... Read More

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain’s existing ‘extreme’ measures weren’t enough to slow the virus New lockdowns were announced for England and Scotland Monday even as Britain began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the... Read More

A man wearing a face covering walks past graffiti on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast with a message reading ‘Wear a mask, it hasn’t gone away you know’ Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP) With daily coronavirus... Read More

The discovery of new drugs is vital to achieving the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa and around the world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have identified traditional Ghanaian medicines which work in the lab... Read More

With the arrival of effective vaccines for the COVID-19 virus, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon but in the short term the virus continues to spread. A timely new study published today by PLOS ONE examines the... Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Israel began Sunday its third coronavirus lockdown, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced optimism that a “world record” vaccination drive will restore a degree of normality within weeks. After a sharp resurgence of detected infections, Netanyahu’s... Read More